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National Opinion A. A. KARLE, PUBLISHER. BRADFORD, VERMONT, FRIDAY, JULY (, I8(i(. VOLUME L NUMBER 4. GENERAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY li . . w i t r TAIL"". l,nl)t.RI. VKKMIWT. Kim.iii in U:xT,y' HiiiMi". ( tfurf'n Stun. in roiir of S. T. 1 MiAI'I'lt AND TAII.OU, IIH Vl'l OlIII, VKHUllKT. Slioii over llallctfn Stun-, niul next ilnnr to Dr. Si iitt'x ntllcc. 1 iiokwi'i.i. iMKiitn, ATTOHXF.V AND COl'SSKIXnit AT LAW, JAflrr ttmi Sollrihtr in Vhilnrrrtf, and Vvnitiim ir iff f'lrtim .limf, PKAIIFOItll, VEHMONT. tnis. a. a 1,1.1:1, FASIIInNAIII.EIlU'SS& UIAK MAKING Jimmi IT H.:'il)' IluililiiiK, IlRAI.FOltl., VKRMiWT. Ma.liin. St-winn Joim nt ulii.rt wit ire. kii.i.i'i AT TIIK I'OlllI. nr.v. .1. iiiirrTo, AO EST t'lHl MESSIfS. .1. KSTKY A C'VH ('ottiisrr Orirnni anil Perfect Mcli.ile..ii. it it viirium, vmoiont, (rilcr milii-iti'il. ltwtriiiiient.1 yraiTiintcil uml wiit tu liny part of tin roi.ntiy. J II. worth .'. ATTOKNKY AND (1 )l XSK1.U I AT LAW. ItlHIirutlll. VKHMUNT. 1 .11. I.. (trOTT, M. Ill MK d'ATll 1ST, n li A t r 11 n 1 1 . V F. it i 11 s T I. IS II 1. 1 --, L 1 ( i: X S 1 . 1 AUCT1 (I X i: K 1( . lilt U.KOlll., MUlMIISr. .1. nmii.i.i::. ' II O T () fl 1! A I II K It , U KI.IS' l:I l.K. Vi-KMIINT. Hi' in ileiiil, tin) beautiful youth, Tim lii'Urt of liuiiiir, the timjiue of truth Hi', the lift- uml liylit of tii all, WTumc voice van lilithr im tin liiijjle call. Whom iilli yi'H fullnwi'il with nne ciinscnt, TJic rlicpr of wlioftr laugh, nnil wlion ili'iicant wnrtl, IIuhIh iI all iimrniiTH if ilim imti'tit. Only last night ns wc rmlii silong Down tin' ilark of the iiiiiiintain :i p, TovUit thi picket jiwril at tin- forl, Little ilreniiiiii): of any niihai. Hi- wilt humming flic wiinli nf mitnn olil nong : Two reil ronci hp hail nn liis ni, Aud Hiiutlii'r hi lMiri at the juiiiit nf lii. HWiiril.' Smlili'ii ami Hwift a wlii'itliiiK halt Ciime out of thi wimhIh, ami tin voice waHHtill : SunietliiiiK I hi aril in the ilarltni' fall, Ami lor a moment my lilooil Rriw chill ; I Npake in a whhpcr, ft.i he who KjicakK In a room when noin one inlym;; iliail : lint he Inaile no aiiKWi r to what I jniil. We lifted him up on hi-', ailitle aain. Ami tlirouuh the niii-e anil the mint mill the rain Csirricil him hark to hi nib-lit camp. Ami laiil him ii if asleep 011 liin licil ; Anil I nw ley the li'iht of the Burgeon's lamp Two white ri"i'.s upon hi clicckn Ami one jut over his heart hlooil nvl! Ami I saw in a y Uii.n l.tiw far anil licet That fatal l.tillct went spccilim; forth, Till it reaehetl u town in the ilistant Xorth, Till it rcarhcil n lumiciu a sunny street. Till it reaclit il a heart that renitcil to heat Without n murmur, w ithout 11 cry ; Ami a lu ll iviii ti.llcil in 11 far on' tow n. For one win. hntl passetl from crn-m to crown. Ami the neihl'tii'M womtereil that flic mIiouM In-. 1(. W. Liix ifklmiw. ritoivri.i. 11 1 11, T A I L 1!. ititiiiionti. vr.iiMwNT. i.ipiii UarclvV llnililin. iirt ilnor up - .1. A. II A ltll . (With Wm. i. llar.lv.) li A (TIC A L W ATC II M A K I'. Store in Xo. I llanU'i Ilntlilin. 11. si i:n Jii. e. lltuX HU XnKi: AND SlACIItXI.oT. Ami Maiiufaetaivrof Arieiiltiiral Iiiiplement l'.t; I il'. lt! II. VFHM.iNT. II. IS. M'l'l'A r.s. piifiriiir.iiiii ri;oiTi:i; lnn si:. it it v f 1 n r. i , v r. i; y. s r . I'luirrixj tiii: ii:vii.. . it. M-rt-; i:s. i'i;(ii i:ii:Tuit sruixit iiutkl, B W II I It t , VKKWONT, X. 11 A :! Li very tiltaehnl. M1I.4J. II tliltV. I i.ti'.l hv .1. A. llaflv.l '. ATC II M A K K U AND .1 L W V. I. V. U inhiiin. vrit'iiivT. Denier ia W ot, h.-. CI.h 1, - an. I .lew-lrv.t !ohl. Siher. IM.i!1 ! I Ili it.iitMi' 11 an . 1 lite l'.-ik.- .ill.l I ,.!.!' ( ttlii l atlkee N . ' t lull. 1 lr K.rn . tl r. 1, Sp.it. 1 ( lock :..am! . I li. v, teh.'. ,.illai.t.-.l. Hill .h - ' II t I. lit loll t -I IH'i it'l i I l.l i " l.llil.illU. Kl.re el .Mail. X.i. I . . . n.titki:, IIOlM:, SI CX. A X I OKXAMKXTAI. I'ttiittrr, i'r;tinrr. tiUtzier. ,1" litfni--!ltiiti-r. nil Ml ill.l., I.UMIINT. A l..i. ih-itl. r in raim-, I liU. 'arnilie. nml Taint St. k of ev. rv il.-M-ription, li - 1 1 1 1 F'raTite. M.niliUn'. anil rla-. 1 .1. o. i.i ix.s 1 ,s:. t ATTiHiXKY li i I H XSLI.I.OU AT LAW. Snliritttr ill (lutnvn'tl. I.ifr t'ii'f Jtisnrtturr .t :,ni, Wl.-T Tllt-II,M, W UM..VT. It .1. iti:v UK ATTLKlii KO, VKI.'Mi XT, M IM I 41 ri 111.11 IIF )Iiliit!inn, fiill.urf, Hiirraonif. ami Ilidiiir OrirrTn. with the Vox Humana Tn iool... f.mml only in the Lstcv (ltaii. II. II. t HXAX r, Drfonl. X. II. A,-ent. AT l:LDI t'KD l'l.'ll KS. ItlCII , 1 1. in p. I il ( hit h, lira Matlinu. Cotton llackim:. at V. X H. T. KKVKSi ( u s. Alil'KIS Vj All Wool. Iahliu i nix 1 1 1 ni". 1 1 n'Xi ; f.s. so fa. F.a.y Cliair. StutV. .l l.'.-ckiiij Chair, 'ane Seat ini.l ll.i. U T.;tir. W hat Xot. Ta lile. M irror. W'itnlow shaih . fcc.nt F. A II. T. KK I.S & ( II S. A VA Ul LTV IF I'l.A I X Ir.i.iiii Suit. Matttii-. it In -e Ili'iUtcnil. Cri'i ami -(ll MltF.II SK I'S Vv ali.l I ll'iialii.-lilnl l He. Sprint: Iteil. I Nwinu Crailli', nt f. a 11. r. kf:vls (us. f 10 T( F. A II. T. KKVI'S i (11.. WIlF.Ki: " I you ejiii net c 1 All Wool D.-lain . fah- lonaf.lc color, lor .'ic.. it I Print from l.'ito t.tic., ami oilier lire (io..il cipially 11 cheap. t, 4 1 0 TO K, A II. T. KKVI'S A- CO.. WIIKKK you cm cet Ten. Coflee. Sitirar, Fi-h. 1 ripe, flour, ( hoeoiate, lir.iina, Al.iei ari.in, Tapioca, S,i;;n, Vi noieelli, uml even tiling 1 l-e lit the very lovct i.i ii i . (F.O. I'lIK II M(D. AO T. WOI'1. 1 1 IX ' viti ntti'iil ion to lii Ntock of kooiI. nur Ititf hi patron that Iiun iti) lieeu iitrchiii ii nt the most favotilhle term, he V III ivi L'ri .it iiiilucciiieiitit to ( 'nh. niul lieailv I'nv Intyer. Jlullrr, For whh (mill. Wiiutcil, in cxcliiinue, nml for cuh, t'hrrtr, Kgij. Tltiiim, ilnph Sinjm; 7V ttthif, VH, ttn'l 'itnl. li the hij;hct luniket price will he One niolit nt a latclioiu'Dr. l'.ciil ley whs (list iii'licil sit liis stuilics liv 11 r;ittiiiiy siiiiml ;iiiiisiio- (lit wiMitl, wliirli, sawed and split, had been left by tlie teamster, the al'tcrminii previous, too lale to be properly hoiisetl. lie aro.e, went cautiously to the window and saw a woman till her apron witli wood, which she hastily carried away. He resumed Ids seat and commenced his study. Shortly after tin same noise ajrain occurred; and on looking out a s.-e-ontl time, he saw asimilaroperation ; the woman tilling her apron to the utmost limits of itscapaeity. "When she had "one, he returned to his book villi tendcrcst pity in bis heart l'nv a destitution "wliieli sought relief in this lonely, dreary, not to say sinful, manner. j l'.y ami liy be was' startleS by a heavy crash of tailing wood, and. hurry in upjo the w indow, beheld the pour woman easiin;,' tlie very dust of the wood from her apron. He lclii, i'med"nintiiililess, bis o-end,. hear! tilled with commNcration. Slu sw inly departeil. and soon re lumed heavily laden with the wood, w hieh she threw on the pile as if it well- the "accursed thin:,'.'' The doctor's passion and curiosi ty were now intensely excited. Iiej followed her retreating liouretill lie discovered her residence, and I litis i asei rtained who she was. W hat she w as w as no mystery to him. The last hour had show n him her virtue's lolly height. He cnilcd early the next nioriiiisfr on Mr. I! . the' wood dealer, and directed him to i send half a cord of his best wood, j sawed and split, to Mrs. , but j by no means to let her know from w hom it came ; which was readily i promised. Mr. 1! 's teamster, who happened to be within car-shor. jthoii.trh out of siht. was not so j i bound, and. when he tipped the j wood into the poor widow's yard,! i replied toliereao'erinipiiry. who had i sent it, by relating the conversation ; he had overheard. The conscious-stricken mother, I'm liii-jr that her sin and repentance in tlie lonely darkness ul that mui nijiht hour, were know li and under stood by another heart beside her own, hastened without delay to the house of the benevolent man, to ex press her oratitude and her sorrow , and wilh deep humility aud bitter ness, told him the temptation to which her extreme poverty had re duced her, of breaking the eighth commandment. "Thoii;;h my house was dark nnd colli, thoiteh mv heart was wrunj; with anguish, at the sight of my poor, shivering little ones, 1 could not keep it ; mv conscience would not let me." 'S'.lv lwy mill'., mv .li, i iiio.l-itn '' said the good man. " I saw yci eoiupier the devil in two fair lights. OK 'I LAS. Miil.AssKS. , coitt.i;, inn.u - 4 I I 1.1. slin k j. s m i's, m (i.uis ro, si'Icks, i. a. i FAXVY MHH'KMKH nf nil kiiulx. 1,'iec, St null. Ac. Al-o, Ki in cnc I lil nml Flniil. Iron ami Sti el, llor-e ami Ox SIhh'h nml Nail. Cut Nail. Salt, l'ow.l,.r nml Shot, l i-h, I'oik, Conhie. lriniltoiii Ami I ixluie. Ilai.lnare nml l inlnv, Hlotir, nml Country I'iihIucc, nt prieen n low a can lie IioulIiI in I In' loitn oi coiiiily. I I KK MAUD. -HARNESS MAKING. II. II. KLNXKDY KIM'S COXHIAXT I v i, n ha ml I lariie. M. hallitle. Uriilh . II. II. I'.lmihcl, V hip, Iriiiik. uml i ii lliitl)! Il'llllllv kept ill n llllltien n. XX o p a 1 r i iv R ilone II oiouvhl.v. promptly, nml nl ptl ei . I Initikl'iil for pni-t favor, he hnpi k for n I'.illtiutllllicc l.l Die ,iiini, simp .mil iloor Soutli of the Trottir linn '. Iliaillotil. I Diseases of the Kidneys. 1M.L AT I'lilCIIA IID'H. AXD (!;T WAIIIIS K 1 1 1 M ; V I (i.MI'OIMi. the lir. nte! niu.'ilv in the noil. I lor nil illicane of tin- Kiiliti'iD, ' Don't fin-not, Wiirrniitnl to Kivrirllef, o Ciiimht's liOVK. A rough old ilsV ermaii, used to pray often in i cei tain meeting; and there win one expression that he always introduc ed. Often as the peopie heard it, that tender phrase never failed to touch their hearts. The prayer he stammered out was this: "()! Lord lead nr- more and more into the love of Hi list .' niirr mix lore lil,r itr l he nearer (he old tishetlnaii drew towards it, the blighter and warmer it grew ; nnd now, at last, he si a nil, with other fishermen Vint (Intilir, in the noon day glory of Christ's heavenly pre, ence. - Wmle llainiiton, the rebel cavnl y lender, is working two plantations n few miles Ik Iow l!ggs I'tynt, Mis sissippi. Several hundred ol his old slaves, it is said, are with him. A coward luny tight; n coward may compier; but a coward can ne ver forgive. NIK K IVtXT. A year after my scaffold accident, I goes home one night, and Mrs. JJurge that is our next room neigh bor shows me something wrapped up in flannel, all pink and creasy, and very snullly , as though it want ed its nose blowing ; which couldn't be expected, for it hadn't got any to "igiiifv. '"Ain't it a little beauty." she says. Well T couldn't see as it was ; but I didn't like to say so, for I knew my wife Tolly had been reckoning on w hat she said we ought to have hail more'n a year ago ; sol didn't like to disappoint her, for I knew she lay listening in the next room. J'olly always said there never was such a baby as that one, aud sonie th'ng it was taking to see how her face used to light up all over w ith smiles when she tn. lght J wau't looking and I knew it was on ac count of the little tin. She never said she felt dull now; and when at home of a night 1 used to think how my mates would laugh to see me handling the little thing that was alius being pushed into my face to kiss; when I am blest if ever I see such a voracious fun in my life ; it hung onto you nuse, lip, anyw here in a minute. One day when it w as about nine months oid, it was laKen all of a sudden like with a tit. Polly scream ed to me to run for the doctor; for it happened that I was on the club that week, and at home with a bad hand. 1 run for hint and he soon come;' and then there was a warm bath anil medicine ; but afterwards, when I sart' the little thing lying on Tolly's lap so still and uict, and with a dull lilin forming over its eyes, I felt that something w as com ing, though J dared not tell her; and about twelve o'clock the little thing suddenly started, stared wildly an ilistant and then it was all over. My hajal warn't bad any more that week; for it took all my time to try and cheer up my poor heart broken ! lass. She did take on dreadful, 1 night anil day, till w e buried it ; and then she seemed to take quite a ! change, aud lx'gged of me to forgive I what she called her selfishness, and I wiped her eyes once for all, as she j said, and talked about all being for the best. T.ut she didn't know that I lay awake of a night let ling her cry silently till the pillow was soak ed with tears. AVe burled tin little one on the Sunday. and on the Monday morning I was clapped on to a job t!int I didn't much relish, for it was the re bricking of a sewer that ran down one of the main streets, ipiite tif'ty. feet under ground. Alter two years in London I'd seen some change, but this was my fust v isit to the bowels of the earth. I'd worked on drains in the coiintrv, but in such a concern as this; why, a life-guard might have walked down it easy; so that there was plenty of room to work; there you go, (lown ladder after ladder, past gas pipes and water pipes, and down and down, and down, till you get to the stage stretched across (he part that you are to work on, with the day light so high up. as seen through boards and scaffold. and ladders, that it's no use to you who are working by the light oi' glaring gas. There in front of you is Yn dark black arch ; and then behind you is another w hile under your feet the foul rushing water hurries along, sending up a smell as turns vour silver watch, and every sixpence and shilling you have in your pock et Mack as the water that swirls bubbling along. Every word you speak souinls iioiiow anil echoing, w hile it goes whispering and rum bling along the dark arch till you think it has gone, when all at once you hear it again quite plain in a way as would make you Jump as much as half a brick or a bit of hard mortar dropped into the water. T.ut talk about jumping, nothing made me jump more than a bit nf soil, or a sto'ic that was loosened up above, and came rattling do n. I ve seen more than one change ,'olor and I know that it has been from the thought that, suppose the earth caved in, w here should we be? No doubt the first crush in would do it and there'd be an end of workmen and foreman ; but there seeim d something wcrry aw lul in the idea of being buried alive. T.ig as the opening was, when I went to work, it made ine shudder; there was tin1 eailli thrown out; there was the boarding round; then it was for all the world like n big grave, same as I had stood by on a little scale the day before; and feeling a bit discouraged it almost seemed as though I was going down upon the coffin, that something fell with a pat npou my bright trowel, which, if it hadix-en left.w ould have lieeii a spot of just. Nothing like york to put a fellow to lights, and IiHoon found that I was feeling bcter, and the strokes of my trowel TOiit ringing away down the sewei a I cut the brick in half; and afteiui bit I almost felt inclined to whisUe; font Ididn't ; for I kept on thiiiljrig of that solitary face.it home the face that always brightened up tvhen I went back, aud had made sich a man of me as I thought 1 wai, for it was enough to make any mln rain to be thought so much of. And then I thought how dull she'd te of looking at the drawer where i the little things were kept, and tt.'rt I well, I ain't ashamed of it, if I am a great hulk ing fellow I took care that nobody saw what I was doing, while 1 had a look at a little bit of a shoe as I had in my pocki t. I didn't go home to dinner, for it was too far otl'; so I had my snack, and then went to it again directly along with two more, for we was on the niece. AW had some beer sent down to us, and ;it it we went until it was time for i.s to leave oil"; and I must say as I ?.-as glad of it, and didn't much envy the fresher gang coming on to wort all night, though it might just as w 'll have been night with us. I was last down, and had just pn :r.y foot i)ii the first round of the ladder, w lien I heard some thing falling as il hit and jarred the boards np'ards; and then directly a Iter what seeinei "to be a brick struck me on the head, nnd before 1 knew where I was, I ws off the little plat form, splash (low i. into the eold.rush iug water that took me otVand a way yards upon yard before I got above it ; and then I was so confused and half stunned that I let it go under again, and bad been carried ever so far before, half howned I gained my legs and leaned, panting and blinded, up against the slimy wall. There 1 stood lor at least ten min utes, I should suppose, shuddering and horrified, with the thick dark ness all around, the cold, rushing wall r beneath nn, and my mind in that confused state that for a few niiniites longer I cidn't know what I was going to do next, and wanted to persuade niyseT' that it was all a dream aud 1 should wake updircetly. .Ml at once, though. I gave a jump and instead of being cold with water dripping from me, I turned all hot and burning.and t liu! again cold and shuddery; for I had felt something craw ling on my shoulder, and then clost against my bare neck, w hen I gave the jump, and heard close' by me a light splash in the water a splash which echoed through the hollow, while, half to frighten the beasts hat I fancied must lx in swarm, . i .unul me, half w rung from fear and agony, I did, there was a scnflle and rush, and more than once I touched the cold, slippery body of a rat a touch that made me start back as though shot. On and on I went, and still no scaffold, and no gleam (if gas-light. Thought after thought gave fresh horrortomy situation, as now I felt certain that in my frantic haste I had taken some wrong turn or en tered a branch of the main place; and at last, completely bewildered. 1 rushed headlong on, stumbling and falling twice over, so that I was half choked in the black water. T.ut it had its good etfeet, for it put a stop to my wild struggles, which must soon have ended in my falling in to whit was certain death. The water cooled my head, and now, feeling completely lost, know ing that 1 must have been nearly two hours in the sew cr, I made, up my mind to follow the stream to its mouth in the Thames, where, if the tide was down I could get from the wharf or bank. Once more J struggled on, follow ing thi' stream slowly for what seemed to be hours, till at last, rais ing my hand, I found I could not touch the roof; and by that knew that 1 w as in a larger, and therefore not very far from the mouth. Tut here there was a new terror creeping over me, so to speak, for from my waist the water nowtoiich e,l my'i'Iiest ; and sooii after my armpits ; when 1 stoojied, not dar ing to trust myself to sw iin perhaps a mile, when 1 felt so weak 1 could not have gone a hundred yards. I now in my disappointment gave a howl like a wild beast and turned again tohave a hard light to breast the rushing water which nearly took me off my legs. T.ut the tear of death lent me help, and I got on again till 1 felt myself in a turning which I soon knew was a smaller sewer, and from thence 1 reached another, where Iliad to stop; but the water was shallower, not above my knees, and at last much lessdeep than that. Here 1 knell down to rest, and the position brought something else from mv heart ; and after a while, still stooping I went, till having passed dozens upon dozens of drains I determined to creep up one, and 1 did. Tcrhapsyou won't think it strange, as 1 divam and groan in I ed some times.w hen I tell you what followed : 1 crawled on, and on. and on, in was in, I into my own, never to come up any more. Wcrry stupid and foolish ideas, savs you, far fetched ideas. Wcrry likely, but that is what I thought; and there are limes when men has mighty strange ideas; and I'll tell for a fact that something struck me when I went down that hole as 1 shouldn't come up iiguin ; and I didn't neither. Why, the werr.V feel oi me cold, (lamp place made you think of being buried, and w hen a few bits of earth eiinie and rattled down upon the stage above my head, as soon in the (list start was over, it seemed to me so like the rattling of the earth but a few hours lielbre me as a cry of veiled out "TATS!" Tats they were; for above the wash-wash, hurry -hurry, wash-wash, hurry-hurry of the water I could hear littte splashes and a scuffling l.y me along the aides of the brick work. A'ou may laugh at people's hair standing on end, but 1 know then that there was it cieeping, tingling sensation in the roots of mine as though sand was trickling amongst it ; a cloud seemed to come over my mind, and for a few moments be lieve L was mad mad with fear; and it was only by sitting my teeth hard and clenching my lists that 1 kept from shrieking. However, I was soon better, and ready to laugh at myself, as I recollected that 1 could be only a little way from the snot where the men worked; so I began to w ade along-the w ater here j about up t my middle. All at once I stopped, and thought about w here 1 was at work. " Which way did the water run V My head turned hot and my tem ples throbbed with the thought. If 1 went the w rong way L should be lost lost iu this horrible darkness to sink, at last, into the foul, black stream, to be drowned and devour ed by the rats, or else to be choked by tiie foul gases that must be lurk ing down here in the scdurk recesses. Again the horror of thick dark ness come unon me: 1 shrieked out wildlv, nnd the cry went echoing through the sewer sounding hollow and wild till it faded away. T.ut once more 1 got the better of it, and persuaded myself that 1 had only cried aloud to scare the rats. What would 1 have given for a stout stick as a defense against attack as I grouped my way on, feeling con vinced that ' I sliouhl 1k rixit if I crawled (low n stream, who'll n little reflect ion would have told me that iili stream must be the right way, for I must have been borne down by the water. T.ut I could Hot re flect, for mv brain seemed in a fever, and now and then my teeth chatter ed as though I had the ague. I grouped on for (piite a ipiartcr of an hour, when the horrid thought came upon me Unit I was going wroiiL', and airain I tried to lean up against the wall, which seemed to cause my loot to sup noui uiuicr me. I ti lt no cold, for the prespiru lion ilronncd from me, us I frantic allv turned back ami tried to letriice my steps, guiding myself by running a hand against the wan wnere every now and then it cnteredthe mouth of a small drain, w hen so mire as it (he hones taut the Diact would lead under one of the street gratings, and I kept staring ahead in the hopes of catching a gleam of light, till iit last t he l.laee seemed so tight that I dared go no farther, for fear of being fixed in. Bo I began to back very slowly, and then feel ing it was hard work, stopH'd for a rest. It was quite, ory here, but scuffling on in front, I kept on hearing the rats I had -driven before me ; and now that 1 stopped and was quite still, half a doy.j.. of them made a In when Polly's away he says he knows I should have like tosee how they tore that drain up in no time. To which there's 'always such an echo in my heart, that it coincsqniie natural to sav : " Vou're right, iu boy!" All the Yrnr limiitil. Uskoi" Liorou.s AM) ToiiAcro in Exr.i.AXD and Scotland. An American Clergyman, writing to the Congrvgntmnalixt from Edinburgh, thus speaks of the prevalent use of stimulants among the religious class es of England and Scotland: " I confess F have been altogether surprised at the amount of drinking, lioth of wines and stronger liquors, both in England and Scotland. 1 am happy to say that there are a considerable number of ministers in both sections of the island, chiefly among dissenters, who are active and earnest in their advocacy and practice of the principles of total abstinence. There are ."il 10 such of .''(III!) Congregationalisis. Tut, on the other hand, all the rest, includ ing the vast majority of the minis ters and laymen of all denomina tions, use wine regularly and with considerable freedom, and most of them do not hesitate to furnish and drink brandy or other kinds of ar dent spirits. Mine out of ten drink the former at every public dinner. and generally at luniic. I .scarcely ever preached where it " as not of fered me in the vestry. Indeed the idea of the importance and obliga tion of abstinence for personal safe-, ty, and for the sake of example, does not seem to have any hold upon the great body of Christians. In fact, public sentiment and practice in (Jn at T.ritain on this point is just about what it was in America b( -fore Dr. lleeeher preached his six sermons on intemperance, and be fore the Temperance Teformation began. In Scotland, Pintff -taking is very common. The snulYhox. appears and is passed round often in public anil private circles. I saw Modera tors of meetings often resort to the use of the " titillating powder," and I have seen it used at the table, though not often, ('hewing toliaceo is not as common as with us, and there is little of the disgusting habit of spitting that prevails so much in America; lmt -smoking is almost universal with men. In tact, it is one of the srreatest of annoyances. m public and in private. It is, if possible worse than with us; and though forbidden by rules, is yet indulged in the railway carriages almost always.'' AMI KlSi ft V K K COFI'D hh ' ti: iiai i i:i. if t..,.i l I.., l.i 1 .... , i. ii, ir. li. in- nii.iiiiL li.'" " I thinkrthere is no imme- rush to get past me, and the little light which followed.eveu now gives me the horrors. I'd hardly room to move; but 1 killed oneby squeezing him, when the others backed off, but not till my face was bitten and run ning with blood. At hrst, half dead, T tried tobaek out, for theplaee seemed to stilleme ; and I pushed myself back n little way, and then 1 tdopped, for the skirts of my jacket tilled up what little space had been left, and I felt that I was wedged in, stuck fast. Now came the horrors again worse than ever. The hot blood seemed to gush into my eyes; 1 felt half suf focated ; ami.to add to my sullerings a rat, that felt itself as it were, pen ned up, fastened upon my lip. It was its last bite, however, for, half mad as I lelt then, mv teeth had closed in a moment upon the vicious beast, and it was dead. 1 made one more struggle, but could not move, I was so used up; and then 1 fainted. It must have been some time be fore I came to myself; but when I did the first sound I heard was a regular tramp, of someone walking over mv head, and 1 gave a loiigyell for help, when, to my great joy, the step halted ami I shrieked again. and the sweetest sound I have ever heard in mv life came back. It was a voice shouting : " Hallo!" " Stuck fast in the drain !" I slioiit . ... , , . i i . . .c i. ... i t.. ei . ed williaii ine sirengiii i nan irn , and then I swooned oil" once more; to wake up a week afterwards out ot a bruin fever sleep in a hospital. It seemed 1 had got within a few yards of a grating w hich wasanend of the drain, and the close quarters made the rats so fierce. The police man had heard my shriek, and had listened at the grating.and then got help; but he was only laughed nt, for they could get no further answer out of mo. It was then about half past three on a summer's morning; and thouiih t'.ie grate was got open they were about to give it up, saying thcpoliccmnii had been Iiuiiibuggi'ii; when a couple (it sweeps ca up; and the little 'uu offered to go down backwards, and he did anilcaineout directly alter saying that he could feel a man's head with his toes. That policeman has had many a glass at my expense since.nnd I hone he'll have'iuany more ; and when he tells me the story, which I like to hear but always take care it shall Tub Epi -CATtox of Tin: Xkgro. Tiuding that the freeduien w ill be educated, through the efforts of the Northern people, despite the oppo sition of their late masters and the Southern white population general ly, the papers of the South are be ginning to urge upon their readers the duty of taking the education of the negroes into their own hands, so as to get rid of Northern school teachers and prevent the lreedmen from becoming imbued with North ern ideas. The Augusta ((la.) Con ulitHliouuIint concludes a long article on the subject as foilows: If the fVeedmen are taught to read, they will soon come in posses sion of the truth concerning them selves and the slave trade, and the part performed by the North in that trade. Thev can also learn that their emancipation by Mr. Lincoln was defended as a " war measure," and was not based up'i:i love for the negro. ' They will discover that the secret of the Tadieal party is not that it hates the negro less, but his former muster more. The South has everything to hope and nothing to (ear from a proper education AVe h ive pientloned the ltou'st of ex-Senator Toombs that h" would yet call the roll of his slaveft on IJunker Hill. This empty, thrent took place at Havanna, where Toombs is now residing, and wan made to an American lady, who thru deseiilies the seene : " At the table (of the hotel) I was introduced to iiir. loomos, ot Geor gia. I inquired, mtto voce, of the nearest gentlemen, if it was (he for mer Senator of the Tinted States. I think he saw that I was asking about him, for. he at once began to tell the English captain (naval) next to him that he had been thirteen years in the Senate-of the United States; that he was a, Confederate (leneral, and Confederate gentle men were gentlemen, &t: Captain L. remarked : "This lady is not of your way of thinking; she is for the Federals,'' looking over at me. So appealed to, I said: " Yes, indeed, I am for the Union I am a Yankee to the marrow of my hones." "Ah!" said Toombs, " I have trampled on the Yankee fhlg many times (gen tlemanly, was it not?) I have trod upon eighteen of them at onetime." I replied, " It seems to have done very little harm, since it floats tri umphant now." "(), I shall doit am yet." diate danger," replied I, "either of that or your calling the roll ot your, slaves on Tanker Hill." Such an expression of fiendish- ' ness as his countenance assnmed I cannot describe ; the corners of his mouth curled up, showing his lnr, tobacco-stained teeth, and he hissed out, " Til count them there yet Til count them there yet." "You inny," said I, " but with the tables turned, you in bonds and thev free." "Oh!" said he, "the North has not done w ith us yet." " Indeed," -said I, " if you have not fought it out why did you stop! The sooner you recom mence the better. Yon can fight as long as you please, you know as long as it seems good and pleasant to you until you come to that last ditch !" He grinned with rage, " O, the giant is not strangled yet. " The giant !" said I ; where was ho when Sherman wcut through your State ! I never heard that he found even any fossil remains of giants, or dwarfri." - - - - I turned and asked the astonish ed English sympathizer at my Ride to take me away, and we rose; there had leen a simultaneous more merit on the other side of the table. I think they were all ashamed of their " Confederate gentleman," for did he not liegin by his insulting lxiasts of his outrages to the flag he had just been informed claimed mv fealty !" Of the negro.' c.ooa ro-RMV. It is just as hard for children to be good as it is for adults; a fact which should be remembered by pa rents. " I will l.c nni.il, clear iiii.tln r," I tcmil ii .sweet cliil.l city ; I v ill lie .hmI limy vcntcli nn I will In- (.mil all iluy." Sin' lift nl ttti tier In Llit yi.uti" even. Willi ii ol't niul iilcic-'iiiu inili", 'I lien ii unit licrV kin.4 uii.t uu her lip, Sn iiirc niul li cc I'nnii (.nil.'. Ami win ti iM-il.t caiiic Hint little inic, In kiiccliiiK li. li tu piny. Sniil, in il .'ft unit liiicriiin tunc, " lliiye I liccn t!.n.il tn 'ilii.v r (t! ninny, ninny liitlcr tr.u-i Twiitilil niivc iimliil we kii.v, Like tluil ilcnr liilil. Willi ciuiickI liciti'ti, ' I will lie i;iiii.1 Inilii.y." Il is the purpose' th w illing mind which (iod accepts, ns well as the performance. IlKAVY Yr.iiDK'T. In the Frank lin Co. Court, a verdict of -V'U-0 has been given against the town of WcMtlleld for injuries Mrs. John Walker received on "the Notch road in November, isiKl, while riding from Lowell to Montgomery with Iter husband a:id two children. Pkmixiscences op a United Status Senator. Some thirty years ago 1 was in trade with Judge II in a pleasant village of Yer- inont, in the town of S . There are two villages in that town that, are denominated " Upper Hollow" and " Lower I follow." A short distance above the Lower Hollow lived a man by the name of Orlando Handy, a blacksmith by trade. He was in the habit of nsiug liquor pretty freely, especially about election time. Aliout that time there was an exciting election for. Representative to the Legislat jre, that had just come off, nnd nil were anxious to hear the result. Mr. T.undy hapis ned to be in the store as Judge II was reading the re turns from the different towns. Among the rest was that of a town on the west side of thedreen Moun tains, that had elected S. F. for the Representative. "Is it possible that they havo elected him a representative f" said Mr. T.undy. "I knew him like a book. He was a poor boy and used to live at my father's. His father died when he was young, nnd his mother lw ing poor, he was put out to live with different farmers to earn a living. When he lived with my father he was so koi that he was not able to buy a pair of shoes. My father being a well to do farmer, was able to keep me in shoes. It irritated the boy to think he had no shoes. One day my father sent ns to cut Canadian thistles in the field. I had shoes to protect my feet, but poor S. was barefoot, nnd th thistles pricked his feet, and I bot li en d him and laughed at him for not having shoos. He got excited by my jeerand the stingof the thistles, nnd' straightened himself up, ami shook his little list at me, au(l said: Orlando T.undy, 1 "hull see the day that 1 shall be able to wear shoes." And so it proved. He did wear mIioch. He acquired an education a profession and his shoes trod the legislative halls of Vermont. His shoes pressed the floor of Congress uml the Senate Chamber, nnd many a lime have Wen in the place de signated for the Vice rresidont. They were the shoes of the Hon. Solomon Foot, United Wtates Sena tor from Vermont, Ribbons of any kind should be washed In cold suds, and not rinsed. A Trizr AvoitTit HAViNfl Mr, E. W. (leer, of Sheldon, who rap tured, some time since, plendid black fox. has recently sold the skiu of the animal (uv forty gohl dollar. fj;'.i ,- -t